PHOENIX — Jack Ward left his family and friends back home in Yorkshire, England when he moved to Phoenix to learn how to make guitars. “I’ve played guitar since I was 9,” he said. “I just want to ...
In this video, I share my experience building a guitar primarily from reclaimed wood, including pieces from an old piano. The ...
Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? “Please work,” I mutter. Over the last three months senior home editor Roy Berendsohn ...
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A class offered this semester through Purdue's College of Technology allows students to combine skills in engineering, woodworking and manufacturing processes to build their own customized acoustic ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University will offer two separate workshops this summer for those interested in making their own electric guitars. The High School Guitar Workshop will be held June ...
As the CEO and president of Taylor Guitars, Andy Powers has seen his fair share of changes within the guitar manufacturing industry. As a guitar designer and life-long guitar aficionado, well, you ...
I’m part of a team of professors and high school teachers around the country that encourages high schools to teach kids to build guitars as a way of making science, technology, engineering and math ...
Many moons ago I remember asking Paul Reed Smith why he didn’t use pickups made by the likes of Seymour Duncan. My thinking was that while Paul had studied and learned the guitar-making craft of the ...
Resting in its case on top of a desk at the corporate headquarters of the company that makes Gibson guitars is a technologically head-spinning model that Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz describes ...
When you think of a guitar what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a simple maple acoustic, the kind played by countless singer-songwriters over the years, or perhaps a double-necked mahogany electric, favored ...